Our beds are made and priced for standard size mattresses, Twin 38x75, Double 53x75, Queen 60x80, King 76x80. Beds are made in the 18th Century style with massive side rails, almost 3x4 inches square, set high, 16-18 inches to the bottom, off of the floor. In olden times this kept the floor drafts off the sleepers while today it provides a place for our dogs to sleep. Rope springs that can be woven around the rails in a number of ways for different looks support the mattress. If, however, you want a conventional box spring and mattress arrangement we will be happy to accommodate you.

The following pages show some of our bed offerings. The most common request is for pencil post beds but we offer other styles: low post in Shaker and cannonball styles, medium and tall turned post styles from the Colonial and Early American periods. Soon we will be offering a medium and a tall post styles from the Empire period. These are being copied from some of our restoration client's beds.

Our beds are constructed with mortise and tenon joints at the rails and posts. These are secured with machine bolts through the posts and captured nuts in the rails. It is a solid, time-tested, mechanical attachment guaranteed to withstand generations of use.

The headboards shown are the most popular but if you have a design in mind we will be glad to use it.